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Lawmakers, regulators and private sector leaders will on November 30 meet in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, to review Nigeria’s local content achievements and identify ways to strengthen indigenous businesses and make them more competitive.
The meeting, a closed-door Local Content Roundtable, will hold at the Nigerian Content Tower as the opening session of the 2026 Practical Nigerian Content (PNC) Forum.
With the theme, Building Sustainable Local Capacity: Scaling Capability, Enabling Ownership and Funding Growth, the roundtable will examine how much industrial, technological and intellectual capacity Nigeria has developed since the enactment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act in 2010.
Participants will also discuss how to ensure that skills, technology and businesses developed through oil and gas projects remain useful beyond individual contracts and can compete in international markets.
The discussions will focus on the cost of building sustainable local capacity, funding challenges, technology transfer, supplier development and the need to ensure that investments in training and certification produce lasting benefits for the Nigerian economy.
Portfolio and Country Director of dmg events, Wemimo Oyelana, said the forum would move beyond celebrating local content achievements to examining the actual capacity created in the country.
“Every year at PNC, we celebrate the percentage. This year, we wanted a room that explores what that percentage is made of, and how we build on it,” Oyelana said. She added that skills, technology and industrial capacity developed through projects over the past 16 years were valuable assets that needed to be sustained and expanded.
“The Roundtable will bring stakeholders together to define what lasting Nigerian capacity looks like, how it can be measured, and how we grow it at scale,” she said.
The 2026 PNC Forum, themed Defining Strategic Priorities for the Next Decade of Nigerian Content Implementation, will also introduce three new activities: the Local Content Impact Stage, an Executive Debate and Breakout Sessions.
The Local Content Impact Stage will showcase deals and partnerships helping to strengthen local businesses and capabilities.
The Executive Debate, titled The Business Case for Local Content: Cost Burden or Competitive Advantage?, will examine whether local content requirements should be seen as additional costs to businesses or an opportunity to improve competitiveness and create lasting economic value.
The Breakout Sessions will bring participants together to identify priority actions for implementing Nigerian content over the next decade.
The organisers said the forum would provide opportunities for policymakers, industry operators, investors, indigenous businesses and technology providers to discuss partnerships, access to finance, technology development and expansion across the energy sector.
For oil and gas operators and project developers, the discussions will focus on how local capacity can improve project delivery and strengthen long-term competitiveness.
Indigenous businesses and investors are expected to explore opportunities for funding, partnerships and the commercialisation of locally developed technologies.
The Practical Nigerian Content Forum, which marks 16 years since the enactment of the NOGICD Act, has become a platform for discussing local content development, promoting business opportunities and connecting industry stakeholders.
Its activities include strategic discussions, exhibitions, site visits, gala dinners and networking sessions.
